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machicolation
a gallery projecting on brackets and built on the outside of castle towers and walls,with openings in the floor through which to drop molten lead, boiling oil, and missiles.
Manor house
home of the owner of a fief without license to build a castle with towers and keep.
merlon
part of a battlement, the square "sawtooth" between crenels.

Meurtriere
arrow loop, slit in battlement or wall to permit firing of arrows or for observation.
Moats
ditch sometimes filled with water surrounding the castle.
Modillion
small bracket, sometimes scrolled, sometimes clock-like, set at regular intervals in the soffit of a cornice.

Moineau, Moyeneau
small external bastions situated in the moat and joined to the scarp.
Monks’ dormitory
large room where the monks slept.
Motte
an earthwork mound on which a castle was built .
Mural
painting on the internal walls of a building.

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